Apparatus for holding can-covers in canning.



PATENTED JUNE 7,1904

E. w'. HAYDEN, APPARATUS FOR HOLDINGGAN GOV-HRS IN GANNING.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 19. 1903. v

I 0 MODEL.

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UNITED STATES Patented June '7, 1904.

PATENT ()FFICE.

ERNEST W. HAYDEN, OF BAYLES, CALIFORNIA.

APPARATUS FOR HOLDING CAN-COVERSVIN CANNING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 761,767, dated June '7, 1904.

Application filed June 19,1903. Serial No. 162,290. (No model.) i

To (ZZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ERNEST W. HAYDEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bayles, in thecounty of Shasta and Stateof California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Holding Can- (Jovers in Canning, of'which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved device for holding cans when sealing the cover in canning. It is intended principally for domestic use, where a small number of cans are closed at one time. Great inconvenience has heretofore been found in holding downthe cover when sealing. The cover is preferably sealed by means of paraffin applied to the circle of juncture between the can-cover and the can. To hold this .coverdown while so sealing and when the can and its contents are at boiling heat is a difficult and delicate operation, especially as it is necessary to perform the operation quickly before the cans have time to cool.

My invention, therefore, has for its object to provide a convenient means, which shall also be cheap and simple, for holding the covers down upon the cans during the operation of sealing.

My invention, therefore, resides in the novel combination and arrangement of parts for the above ends, hereinafter fully specified, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a broken side elevation of my improved apparatus, showing two cans in position thereon. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is Fig. 4 is avertical enlarged section through a hanger-bar, showing presser-foot and stem. Fig. 5 is a detail view of the spring detached. Fig. 6 is a side elevation, partly in section, of a modified form of my invention.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents a suitable base of circular form having mounted centrally therein a standard 2, screw-threaded at its upper end, as shown at 3. Upon said screw-threaded end are screwed three horizontal hanger-bars 4:, which are secured to gether, as shown at 15, and extend at angular distances of slxty degrees around said standl ard. These arms may also all be cast in one piece. The ends of said hanger-bars contain tubular guides 5, in which slide presser-stems 6, having heads 7 and presser-feet 8. Said stems have also pins 9, which pass through slots 10 in the sides of the tubular guides, and

diameter, while the outer and upper are for the cans of larger diameter. I also provide means for holding in position cans of the largest diameter, said means comprising pins 14:, secured upon the base at equal distance in a circular series and so arranged as to space the largest cans from each other while centering them beneath the presser-feet. The position of the largest size of cans is indicated by dotted lines at Figs. 1 and 2. Before placing the can in position, which is gener' ally after the contents have been boiled, the presser-stem is drawn upward bymeans of the head.

thereon, and in this manner all the cans are placed in position on the base before sealing.

In the modification shown in Fig. 6 the cans are placed in line with each other instead of in a circular series, and there is a series of standards, one for each pair of cans, and likewise a hanger-bar on said standard for each pair of cans. In other respects the construction is similar to that in the first modification. 7 o The'height of the pressr-feetcan readily be adjusted by screwing up or down the hanger-bars 4.

I claim An apparatus of the character described comprising a base, a standard screw-threaded at its upper end, a hanger-bar adjustably mounted onsaid screw-threaded end, having The can is then placed in its proper 'place and the presser foot allowed to rest guides at its ends, apresser-stem in each guide hand in the presence of two subscribing withavlng a presser-head and a presser-foot, a nesses. sprlng between each foot and the hanger-bar,

' T v1 7 7 Y n ,Y and means carried by the base for centering" EBB Ebl HA1 5 the cans beneath said presser-foot, snbstan- Witnesses:

tially as described. A. GROTEFENI),

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my ANDREW KIRK. 

